Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. However, a major new study reveals that forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough ...

Tropical forests are struggling to keep pace with climate change. Scientists warn that slow adaptation could threaten ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research ...

Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

A rainforest-rich Brazilian state has established a commission to monitor REDD+ benefit-sharing and emissions reductions, support REDD+ projects and programmes, and liaise with a key national REDD+ ...

The Rainforest Alliance has claimed its Agriculture Standard has been streamlined. So what does that look like and how will ...

Warming of the planet and drought conditions will disproportionately affect frog and toad habitats in the Amazon and Atlantic ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the ...

The Rainforest Alliance has updated its certification programme with the aim of making it more user-friendly and data-driven.

Adaptivity is threatened by global warming and deforestation. The Earth's climate system is highly complex, with its key ...